Thursday, February 15. 2018

The last day of January was very busy day in the woodshop heated confines.

Can you see Henry Vincent up there in between the rack shelving!?

Yes, Henry is installing new air line piping in the new addition of the shop. Hey, Henry, how is the world look from up there?

Here Randy Hicks is varnishing some seat frames for the CA E 36.

He is always busy making the his favorite interurbans more presentable to the membership and the general public.

Here is one of the entrance doors that Randy has already repainted. What a beautiful Red color.

This seems to be the coach department winter project. Paint stripping windows in the GBW coach. Here, Bob Olsen is at it again stripping off the old paint. When he gets done there should be about 40 windows stripped and ready for varnish!

Pete in now working on repainting a wood door to our class B Illinois Terminal electric loco

Victor and Dave Rogan here are discussing some manufacturing possibilities for the PRR Bobber Caboose

Richard Witt is again working on another drawing at his drafting table

For more pictures on this subject and more updates from the electric car shop please visit the Hicks Car Works .com. The blob is a private entity owned by Randy and Frank Hicks. It is geared towards electric traction but often mentions other activities at our museum as well as others around the country. I'm sure you will enjoy it. Between Randy's blog and the entries here on the IRM blog you should
always be kept up on the latest news at IRM.
Thanks Roger

Monday, February 5. 2018

The last day of January was a busy day for us at the Museum. General Manager, Paul Cronin, and Don, I forgot his last name, sorry, was the switching crew that moved a number of pieces of equipment in this cold winter weather. First, the switch crew moved the newly painted IC 3345 was moved from barn 10 to barn 14. To make room for this coach we had to move the Rock Island 2571 coach and leave it outside. No more room in any of the barns. We need to build Barn 15!!

Heres the 3345 moving from barn 10

We moved the coach to temporarily site on the streetcar loop east of barn 9.

Next the new Milwaukee Road coach 649 was moved into barn 10 in the space that was vacated by the 3345.

Moving it though the barn 10 yard track

We then moved the bobber caboose out of barn 10 to reposition it for another entry.

View of the bobber and its newly resided area. Vick and his small crew have done a beautiful job!

Heres what the move created. A PFE wood refrigerator box car, used for the transportation of fruit and vetatables is now housed in barn 10 waiting for the repair of its wood siding and eventual new paint job!

Another view from the north side of the box car.

If you are interested in more views of this cold switch move please log onto the hickscarworks.com blog.
Thanks Roger

Kirk Warner about More Mt Harvard PaintingThu, 08-23-2018 08:16Lots of hard work going into
achieving the nice finishes that
are being applied. The finished
product looks great! Is any of
your team still working [...]

Matt Maloy about Update... 428Wed, 08-22-2018 14:38If you want to keep up on the
Electric Department, Ted, I'd
recommend looking up the Hick Car
Works. A couple members from the
IRM Electric Car Dept [...]